Langerock · Ghent · 1700–2026

Six generations from a garden to a king’s cathedral.

In 1700 Livinus Lanckrock tended vines in Ghent. His great-great-great-grandson Pierre was commissioned by King Leopold II to design Belgium’s national basilica — seven towers, 146 metres. It was never built. Pierre’s foundations are still under the basilica at Koekelberg.

This is the documented line: 412 people, read directly from Paul Langerock’s parish-register research. Where he wasn’t certain, the drawing isn’t either.

Living relatives appear by name only. Their dates are behind a family passphrase — as they were in Paul’s original. No Y-DNA haplogroup is claimed here: the one this site used to show was never measured.